Home.prontofileconverter.com virus is a shady computer pest that can hijack your web browser and diminish your browsing experience significantly. This infection arrives together with Pronto File Converter (developed by Genieo Innovation Ltd.), a tool that is advertised as the utility that helps to convert any file without leaving your browser. This suspicious application is compatible with Windows and Mac computers, and can infect all the most popular web browsers, including Google Chrome, IE, Mozilla Firefox, and Safari. It uses particular tracking technologies to spy on user’s browsing activity as he or she browses online, and might gather data such as search queries made, links and ads clicked, bookmarks added, browser type, operating system, and user’s name and IP address. Beware that user’s name and IP address is considered as personally-identifiable information. According to our study, this potentially unwanted program might conduct surveys about Genieo products and services. Be aware that by participating in these surveys and providing your personal information you reveal it to the suspicious third-party company that uses it for market research and possibly other purposes. Besides, this program might share collected personally non-identifiable information with third-parties, and based on such data generate targeted advertisements for you.

Questions about Home.prontofileconverter.com virus

This potentially unwanted program is sometimes called as Home.prontofileconverter.com redirect virus because ads it displays on the screen or integrates within the search results can cause redirects to strange third-party websites. These ads are considered untrustworthy no matter how tempting they look. Clicking on them can possibly cause rerouting to potentially insecure websites filled with unreliable content. We want to warn you that unless you are 100% sure that the Internet site is reliable, you should not download any type of software from sites accessed via the aforementioned ads or Home.prontofileconverter.com search results. Otherwise, you might contaminate your PC with untrustworthy or even harmful programs. You have to understand that content this potentially unwanted program presents is only meant to generate pay-per-click revenue, but not to be useful for the computer user. Therefore, Home.prontofileconverter.com removal should be your top priority task. If you do not know how to remove Home.prontofileconverter.com, use Reimage or similar program, or carry out instructions provided at the end of this article.

How did this potentially unwanted program find its way into your computer?

Home.prontofileconverter.com hijack is an issue that can start bothering the computer user immediately after he or she installs a software package containing this parasite. This can happen after installing a download manager, free game, weather app, or similar application downloaded from the web for free. In most cases, potentially unwanted programs travel alongside free and popular software, so it is important to carefully choose the download source when you need a particular program. Besides, you can reveal and decompose software packages by selecting Custom or Advanced settings for the installation. These settings allow you to see what optional programs have been added to your download and reject them by deselecting agreements to get them. Please do not trust Default or Standard settings because they will only allow all optional programs to land on your computer system without notifying you first.

How to remove Home.prontofileconverter.com?

If you are ready to carry out Home.prontofileconverter.com removal, then please scroll down and see removal instructions that we have prepared. If you are not an experienced PC user, you might find these instructions confusing. In such case, you can go the easy way and remove Home.prontofileconverter.com virus automatically using one of the programs listed below.

You can remove virus damage automatically with a help of one of these programs: Reimage, SpyHunter 5Combo Cleaner, Malwarebytes. We recommend these applications because they detect potentially unwanted programs and viruses with all their files and registry entries that are related to them.

What to do if failed?
If you failed to remove virus damage using Reimage, submit a question to our support team and provide as much details as possible.

Reimage is recommended to remove virus damage. Free scanner allows you to check whether your PC is infected or not. If you need to remove malware, you have to purchase the licensed version of Reimage malware removal tool.

Eliminate Home.prontofileconverter.com from Windows systems

Find all files related to Pronto File Converter and remove them. Also remove browser extensions related to this program.

Click Start → Control Panel → Programs and Features (if you are Windows XP user, click on Add/Remove Programs).

If you are Windows 10 / Windows 8 user, then right-click in the lower left corner of the screen. Once Quick Access Menu shows up, select Control Panel and Uninstall a Program.

Uninstall Home.prontofileconverter.com and related programs
Here, look for Home.prontofileconverter.com or any other recently installed suspicious programs.

Uninstall them and click OK to save these changes.

Remove Home.prontofileconverter.com from Windows shortcuts
Right click on the shortcut of Mozilla Firefox and select Properties.

Go to Shortcut tab and look at the Target field. Delete malicious URL that is related to your virus.

Repeat steps that are given above with all browsers' shortcuts, including Internet Explorer and Google Chrome. Make sure you check all locations of these shortcuts, including Desktop, Start Menu and taskbar.

Eliminate Home.prontofileconverter.com from Safari

Remove dangerous extensions
Open Safari web browser and click on Safari in menu at the top left of the screen. Once you do this, select Preferences.

Here, select Extensions and look for Home.prontofileconverter.com or other suspicious entries. Click on the Uninstall button to get rid each of them.

Change your homepage if it was altered by virus:
Open your Safari web browser and click on Safari in menu section. Here, select Preferences as it was displayed previously and select General.

Here, look at the Homepage field. If it was altered by Home.prontofileconverter.com, remove unwanted link and enter the one that you want to use for your searches. Remember to include the "http://" before typing in the address of the page.

Reset Safari
Open Safari browser and click on Safari in menu section at the top left of the screen. Here, select Reset Safari....

Now you will see a detailed dialog window filled with reset options. All of those options are usually checked, but you can specify which of them you want to reset. Click the Reset button to complete Home.prontofileconverter.com removal process.